I know that Marvel doesn't care. And I know that Joe Quesada is fond of trumpeting his ignorance as a way of dismissing the concerns of his fanbase. So? That still doesn't change the fact that the cover sucks, and that anybody is justified in voicing an opinion about it.
Is it porn? If so, then a Maxim cover is porn.
"If my catgirl picture that I posted on Gaia online is porn, then all Marvel Maxim covers are porn." Come again?
You say your linguistics arguments are not "O'Reilly speak", but it's the same principle - if you get enough people to call something "porn" or "left-wing extremist", it becomes that thing.
I am really not impressed by your tactic of making a comparison to Bill O'Reilly every time you run out of ways to refute an argument. I've seen it in your blog posts, I see you doing it repeatedly in the comments here, and frankly, it's getting annoying. "You sound just like Bill O'Reilly!" is not an argument.
And besides, thousands of individual bloggers decrying an image as porn =/= a lone crackpot like Bill O'Reilly and a few of his friends repeating the same phrase thousands of times.
As for the capper: Well, yes. Sometimes words get diluted and lose their meaning. Sometimes we come up with new words to replace the old words. It's that whole "language is dynamic" thing again. But really, I don't see how any of your alarmist slippery-slope arguments follow from the concession that the HfH is pornographic. It's not any different from the way that most people (excluding you, apparently) are using the word "porn" already, anyway.
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Is it porn? If so, then a Maxim cover is porn.
"If my catgirl picture that I posted on Gaia online is porn, then all Marvel Maxim covers are porn." Come again?
You say your linguistics arguments are not "O'Reilly speak", but it's the same principle - if you get enough people to call something "porn" or "left-wing extremist", it becomes that thing.
I am really not impressed by your tactic of making a comparison to Bill O'Reilly every time you run out of ways to refute an argument. I've seen it in your blog posts, I see you doing it repeatedly in the comments here, and frankly, it's getting annoying. "You sound just like Bill O'Reilly!" is not an argument.
And besides, thousands of individual bloggers decrying an image as porn =/= a lone crackpot like Bill O'Reilly and a few of his friends repeating the same phrase thousands of times.
As for the capper: Well, yes. Sometimes words get diluted and lose their meaning. Sometimes we come up with new words to replace the old words. It's that whole "language is dynamic" thing again. But really, I don't see how any of your alarmist slippery-slope arguments follow from the concession that the HfH is pornographic. It's not any different from the way that most people (excluding you, apparently) are using the word "porn" already, anyway.